Publications

Useful publications and resources

This section of the website is dedicated to providing you with a selection of papers, reports, publications, guides and policy documents. You can access documents that will be directly useful for your work.

There will be research documents that give statistical data that could support an area of your work, policy papers that let you know how your regional development agency is working in your area, guides to working more effectively, some new ideas for rural projects and reports on exemplary projects that could help you in planning something similar.

You can download as many of these documents as you like for free and use them in your work, but please ensure you use them within the terms and conditions set out in our Creative Commons license.

Documents to download

'A DIY guide to Social Return on Investment', The New Economics Foundation, June 2007

The guide, launched at the Social Enterprise Research conference at London Southbank University, is a step-by-step guide intended to allow sector organisations to demonstrate and quantify their wider social value when applying for grants and bidding for contracts. The guide draws on New Economics Foundation's experience of piloting SROI (social return on investment) measurements with a range of social enterprises in collaboration with the Adventure Capital Fund and Social Firms UK. It also includes detailed worked example and case studies of two social enterprises that employ disabled people.

'A Guide to Arts Funding in England', Department for Culture Media and Sport, June 2007

This guide has been published to help artists and arts organisations navigate their way around the arts funding system and identify specific funding opportunities. It is particularly relevant to organisations using the arts to address areas of social policy such as disability, criminal justice, cultural diversity and health.

'Conservation Bulletin Issue 55, Heritage: Broadening Access', English Heritage, Summer 2007

Conservation Bulletin is published three times a year by English Heritage and circulated free of charge. Its purpose is to communicate new ideas and advice to everyone concerned with the understanding, management and public enjoyment of England's rich and diverse historic environment. This edition begins with the community perspectives; looking at how people have chosen to interpret their own heritage and then moves on to look at a range of initiatives and to the changing skills demanded by new ways of working. This includes giving practical guidance on helping to engage new audiences.

Distant Voices: Migrant workers, representation and the arts, Seminar Report, Culture East Midlands January 2008

This document summarises the presentations and key discussions arising from the Distant Voices seminar co-hosted by Culture East Midlands and Making the Connections; Arts, Migration and Diaspora Regional Network. The aim of the seminar was to look at how the arts and culture can represent the views and experiences of migrant workers with the broader context of relationships between cultutre, identity and migration.

EM Rural Creative Industries Case Study Report, Burns Owens Partnership for Culture East Midlands, January 2008

This document is a summary of the findings and implications of a series of case studies of rural-based creative and cultural businesses carried out by Burns Owens Partnership Ltd for Culture East Midlands in 2007. It forms part of a wider study of creative industries in rural districts of the region, which also includes a statistical data mapping and individual reports on each of the participating local authority districts. This document supports the main Regional Report produced for the study. A detailed report on the findings of the statistical data mapping is also available from Culture East Midlands.

EM Rural Creative Industries Data Report, Burns Owens Partnership for Culture East Midlands, January 2008

This document is the full data report for the East Midlands Rural Creative Strategy study commissioned by Culture East Midlands in late 2006, and carried out by Burns Owens Partnership Ltd (BOP) in 2007 (www.bop.co.uk). It provides a detailed, statistical mapping of creative industries in rural districts of the region.

EM Rural Creative Industries Regional Report, Burns Owens Partnership for Culture East Midlands, January 2008

This is the overview report that summarises the findings of the work on the creative industries in the rural areas of the East Midlands. This work was commissioned from the Burns Owens Partnership Ltd (BOP) and took place in 2006/07. This report draws together the research in the East Midlands - data studies at district level and a series of case studies - together with wider information from other research initiatives to provide an analysis of the key issues for rural policy making.

East Midlands Rural Action Plan: 2007-2013, East Midlands Rural Affairs Forum (Part 1)

The East Midlands Rural Affairs Forum developed this action plan in collaboration with the Government Office East Midlands, the East Midlands Development Agency and Natural England. The plan is a regional framework for rural delivery in response to the Government's Rural Strategy 2004. It is embedded in the framework provided by the Intergrated Regional Strategy and the Regional Economic Strategy and Local Authorities, Parish Councils and the Voluntary and Community sector have come together to advise its development. The document will act as a framework for supporting key rural aims and objectives and the actions that will realise these at regional, sub-regional and local levels.

East Midlands Rural Action Plan: 2007-2013, East Midlands Rural Affairs Forum (Part 2)

The East Midlands Rural Affairs Forum developed this action plan in collaboration with the Government Office East Midlands, the East Midlands Development Agency and Natural England. The plan is a regional framework for rural delivery in response to the Government's Rural Strategy 2004. It is embedded in the framework provided by the Intergrated Regional Strategy and the Regional Economic Strategy and Local Authorities, Parish Councils and the Voluntary and Community sector have come together to advise its development. The document will act as a framework for supporting key rural aims and objectives and the actions that will realise these at regional, sub-regional and local levels.

East Midlands Rural Action Plan: 2007-2013, East Midlands Rural Affairs Forum (Part 3)

The East Midlands Rural Affairs Forum developed this action plan in collaboration with the Government Office East Midlands, the East Midlands Development Agency and Natural England. The plan is a regional framework for rural delivery in response to the Government's Rural Strategy 2004. It is embedded in the framework provided by the Intergrated Regional Strategy and the Regional Economic Strategy and Local Authorities, Parish Councils and the Voluntary and Community sector have come together to advise its development. The document will act as a framework for supporting key rural aims and objectives and the actions that will realise these at regional, sub-regional and local levels.

'Greener Events Guide', Government Office for the South West, March 2007

The Government Office for the South West has produced this guide to reducing the environmental impacts of conference and seminars. The guide gives a clear explanation of why is it important to consider how your event affects the environment and goes on to give advice on the four key factors to remember when planning an event

'Migrant Workers and Culture', Culture East Midlands, April 2007

Consultation on the Cultural Interests of Migrant Workers in Boston and South Holland. This paper is the result of a consultation exercise commissioned by Culture East Midlands and undertaken by Drasute Zaronaite and Alona Tirzite of the Migrant Workers Project based in South Holland, Lincolnshire. It is part of a programme of exploratory work by Culture East Midlands designed to raise awareness of the cultural situation of migrant workers.

Rural Development Factsheet, Stratcult through INTERREG-III-C project

The INTERREG-III-C project STRATCULT aims to stimulate cultural Structural Fund projects in Border Regions and beyond. Through a new strategic approach, the operation wants to improve the quality of cultural projects and enhance the effectiveness of Structural Fund interventions. This is a fact sheet they issued on rural development and culture that looks at the problems and challenges to be addressed by rural development policy and gives some case study examples.

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